[Grovenet] From Scientific American magazine . . .

[Katie Allnutt]

This make me glad that people vote and not dirt and rocks.  If dirt  
and rocks could vote, then we would have had very different  
presidents over the last 200+ years.

Katie

On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Bob Browning wrote:

> Really interesting stuff!! And, remember, Obama won by a landslide  
> in the only measure that counts - the Electoral College. (Much more  
> than Bush could claim in either election.) And these maps show why,  
> when population of the counties is taken into account and the  
> population of the states is factored in. But, check out the purple  
> in the last of the six maps in the slide show!!
>
> bob "The Color is Purple" browning
> **************************************
>
>> November 11, 2008 in Society & Policy | 30 comments | Post a comment
>>
>> Beyond Red and Blue: 7 Ways to View the Presidential Election Map
>>
>> Slide show reveals what the country would look like if politics  
>> trumped geography
>>
>>
>>
>> <electoral-results-maps_1.jpg>
>> BENDING THE BORDERS: This "cartogram"  shows what the U.S. looks  
>> like when counties are resized to match their populations. Red  
>> counties voted for John McCain, blue counties for Barack Obama.  
>> The top image shows a standard state-level map of the results.
>> © 2008 M. E. J. Newman
>>
>> Electoral maps are all the rage in presidential election coverage,  
>> with NBC going so far as to turn the Rockefeller Center ice rink  
>> in New York City into a map of the U.S. on Election Day. As the  
>> network called states for the two candidates, Sens. Barack Obama  
>> and John McCain, staffers manually colored those states blue or  
>> red, respectively.
>>
>> Mark Newman, a professor of physics at the University of Michigan  
>> at Ann Arbor, took the simplistic concept of red and blue states  
>> and exploded it, reimagining the country as defined by its  
>> politics and not by its borders. His "cartograms" take state- and  
>> county-level election returns as well as data about population and  
>> electoral college representation and churn out a vision of the  
>> U.S. that is novel, yet still recognizable.
>>
>> Slide Show: Beyond Red and Blue States
>>
>
> <electoral-results-maps_1.jpg>
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